May 7, 1900 - Monday. 
This morning 'before breakfast 1 went down in 
the fields. 
Heard a bobolink but did not see it. 
Down in Fiske’s meadow a small song sparrow 
ran along the ground and then flew. I .think 
that it came from a nest. I did not find it. 
Looked in the meadowlarks nest. There was no 
bird on it. 
In Lawtons pasture I saw a catbird. It sang. 
I whistled a tune and it sang while I was 
whistling. 
Heard a kingbird calling. 
The warbling vireos were there and one was 
singing. The song resembled that of the red¬ 
eyed vireo’s when it is run together. 
Saw a pair of swamp sparrows in a wet spot in 
Piske’s meadow. They were feeding. 
Then I went home. 
After breakfast went down in the fields 
again. 
Saw 3 male bronzed grackles courting one 
female. One male sat above the others. He would 
open his wings, spread his tail and sing and 
then the others would in turn. Sometimes they 
went through the motions, but did not sing. Saw 
my red-head and his mate. They were across the 
river. 
The female grackle flew down by the ditch in 
Doherety’s and the males all followed her. 
A male bobolink flew over singing. There is 
a song sparrow down here that lias 3 or 4 notes 
in its song that sound like a bobolink. Y/ent 
on and saw two killdeer. 
Saw a redstart and a black and white creeping 
warbler in Maine's woods. I got a description 
of the creeper. 
Underparts whitish, sides streaked with 
black, back and wings black streaked with white, 
line through eye and one in center of crown white, j 
rest of crown black, rest of head whitish, tail 
metLium. I zig zagged around on the trunks and 
